<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV>I think that's right..prbly a vicious cycle of a customer base hungrily responding to the marketing of software</DIV><DIV>which offers More! More! More! More! </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>who doesn't want More! More! More! ?</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>plus, things are set up so that if you don't upgrade, you stand a real chance of not being able to work with others because the new app's files won't work with your older version OF the app.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I know it's going to seem wacky to some people here, but I'm going to suggest that peoples' own unrealistic desire to have things get infinitely better, and at low cost, is the key to the situation. Marketers try to appeal to customers' desires, then exploit them...F.U.D., etc.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Why have something that's merely good when you can have something better?</DIV><DIV>Why have something that's merely better when you can have something MORE better?</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>and on, ad infinitum and ad nauseam</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>nk</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Feb 7, 2006, at 9:04 AM, Richard Gilmore wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 9.0px Verdana">The competition in the computer world is fierce. Nothing</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 9.0px Verdana">can be marketed as simple anymore.</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>